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  2. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    On land, the league is most commonly defined as three miles (4.83 km), although the length of a mile could vary from place to place as well as depending on the era. At sea, a league is three nmi (3.452 mi; 5.556 km). English usage also included many of the other leagues mentioned below (for example, in discussing the Treaty of Tordesillas).

  3. Kos (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Kos may also refer to roughly 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) [6] Arthashastra standard unit of kos or krosha is equal to 3075 metres in SI units and 1.91 miles in imperial units. [ 7 ] [ dubious – discuss ]

  4. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    4.8 km – diameter of 5535 Annefrank, an inner belt asteroid; 5 km – diameter of 3753 Cruithne; 5 kmlength of PSR B1257+12; 8 km – diameter of Themisto, one of Jupiter's moons; 8 km – diameter of the Vela Pulsar; 8.6 km – diameter of Callirrhoe, also known as Jupiter XVII; 9.737 kmlength of PSR B1919+21

  5. Cross country running - Wikipedia

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    The USA Cross Country Championships, first held in 1890, include six races: masters women (8 km), masters men (8 km), junior women (6 km), junior men (8 km), open women (8 km) and open men (12 km). In addition to crowning national champions, the championships serve as the trials race to select the Team USA squad for the IAAF World Cross Country ...

  6. Parasang - Wikipedia

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    The parasang, also known as a farsakh (from Arabic), is a historical Iranian unit of walking distance, the length of which varied according to terrain and speed of travel. The European equivalent is the league. In modern terms the distance is about 3 or 3½ miles (4.8 or 5.6 km).

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  8. Kilometre - Wikipedia

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    It was only in 1867 that the term "kilometer " became the only official unit of measure in the Netherlands to represent 1000 metres. [ 10 ] Two German textbooks dated 1842 [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and 1848 [ 13 ] respectively give a snapshot of the use of the kilometre across Europe: the kilometre was in use in the Netherlands and in Italy, and the ...

  9. The lunar far side is wildly different from what we see ... - AOL

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    The South Pole-Aitken basin is believed to be the largest and oldest crater on the moon, spanning nearly a quarter of the lunar surface with a diameter measuring roughly 1,550 miles (2,500 ...